sheer
adjective
transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics.
had sheered
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past perfectof sheer.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The one I had taken to be our engineer had sheered off into the fog.
From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by William MacLeod Raine
She had sheered him off the question that afternoon, but he would want to marry her, she felt sure of that.
From Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales by Henry Rider Haggard
For by now the cab had sheered off into that thoroughfare, and was rocking rapidly south, between glittering walls of light.
From The Brass Bowl by Louis Joseph Vance
The latter, however, had sheered off from its base course well to the right when the alarm was sounded.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
Marshal Schomberg, thwarted by bad weather, had just rallied his troops which had been cast by the winds on different parts of the coast, when it was perceived that the enemy had sheered off.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Robert Black
